A full month of ideas for easy, homemade family-friendly dinners. Includes a free printable PDF calendar with each day’s menu idea for easy planning.
Earlier this year, I started a new feature here on Family Food on the Table with my February meal plan followed by the March meal plan, April meal plan and May meal plan, each one giving you an entire month’s worth of recipe ideas for easy, healthy family dinners.
It does not feel like a chore at all, and I really do enjoy it. I think it’s the type A scheduler in me coming out in full force. ????
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And previously, I’ve shared a list of 30 easy healthy family dinner ideas that could work for any month of the year.
But today, I’m trying to make it easy on YOU by giving you another full month’s worth of ideas for healthy family dinner ideas.
I’ve included the photo of the meal plan here if you want to pin it, but there’s a free printable PDF link at the bottom as well, so you can easily save and print.
Gluten Free, Family Friendly, Healthy Meal Plans
See how chicken wings are on the menu? You can make them yourself or you can pick up some from the meat counter that are already prepped. Or get them from the freezer section.
If you also need specific recipes, I’ve got some included below. You can also grab recipes from your own collection, your favorite cookbooks, or from Pinterest or Google.
Oh, and I included these ideas in order from June 1 on the calendar to June 30, with the date listed too, which will hopefully make things easier to find throughout the month.
June Meal Plan
Or if there’s things you wish I would change or add or do differently, let me know that, too! I want this to be a helpful resource, so let me know how I can make it even more helpful.
(Also, I want to see whether these are useful and if I should continue to make them in the months to come. So please let me know below!)
(You can download and print the June calendar from that link, or save this page to come back to. Whatever is easy for you.)Affiliate Disclosure – I have included affiliate links to useful products and services related to the topic of this post. If you purchase via the links I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Our Simple Fall Meal Plan {free Printable}
Our weekly family meal planner will be updated every Monday – just click the blue links to get the recipes and pin the plan to save it on Pinterest for later!
A delicious vegetarian chilli recipe that’s super easy to throw together. You can make this either on the hob or in the slow cooker. Serve with your favourite sides – rice, flatbreads or chips all work well.
A super easy, warming sausage casserole that just takes 10 minute to prep in the morning. You can also use this sausage stew to use up any leftover veggies – celery, swede, parsnips, anything that needs using up.
Weekly Family Meal Planner Printable
Oh, you’ll just LOVE these air fryer peri peri chicken strips! Totally delicious chicken tenders in a spicy peri peri herby coating. Just choose your favourite side dishes and tuck in!
Whack the baking potatoes in the air fryer for the crispiest, most delicious skins and fluffy centres in a whole lot less time than the oven! Load them up with whatever you fancy – beans and cheese, tuna mayonnaise or leftover stew or curry you have saved in the freezer.
A nice easy beef chilli recipe, no browning needed. Literally dump the ingredients and go! Come back to a warming, flavourful chilli con carne. Just add your favourite side dishes and enjoy!
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The kids just love these easy fish finger wraps – they’re quick to make and are great with chips and baked beans for an easy weekend teatime.
Make a Sunday dinner the easy way with our slow cooker beef joint recipe. Serve with your favourite roast dinner sides – try ur air fryer recipes below for a really easy laid back Sunday dinner.
You can browse loads of meal plans online and get our FREE PRINTABLE MEAL PLANNER template so you can create your own family menu planner.As people have been posting about their New Year’s Resolutions, I noticed a trend. Lots of you want to cook more for your family and successfully menu plan. Hooray for more home-cooked meals in 2018! I grew up with a mom who is a killer cook and we had family dinner almost every weekday night. Because of her example, I try to do the same, though admittedly my dinners are often more simple than hers ever were and sometimes we eat ours in the car on the way to a game or event, but I do cook for my family more often than not.
The Ultimate Winter Meal Plan
However, last year I got into a rut. I felt like I was always making the same things, no one would give me suggestions, my kids were only eating a few bites of dinner, and I was so sick of cooking and eating the same food!! At just the right time, my church put on a menu planning class that kick-started my desire to cook again and helped me figure out a new and easy way to put dinner on the table every night. So, I thought I would share. It is simple enough for me (I am not one for complicated, multi-step, fluffy or check list kinds of things), and it has made shopping and dinner so much easier around here!
Step 1. With your family make a list of all the meals you make. You will be surprised by how many things you actually know how to cook! Here is a look at ours to inspire you…happy to pass along any recipes that look good for your family too!
Step 2. Place those meals on 3 x 5 note cards, or you can make them as pretty as you want and laminate them so they can be used forever.
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Step 3. If it is helpful for you, write the recipe and ingredient list on the back of the card to make your shopping and planning even easier. You can even add the side dishes to the back that you like to make with the meal.
Step 4. On Sunday (or a day of the week that works for your family), get the cards out and have your family decide on meals for the week. In our family we choose 3-4 meals each week. I know one night will be leftovers, one night will be something simple like quesadillas or grilled cheese, and we usually go out one night or grab pizza or something. This also gives flexibility for me if I decide I want to cook something different one night.
When we choose meals we try and mix it up, so we have a few parameters. You can’t choose something that was chosen the week before, and mom and dad can veto anything we have eaten too often. We also require variety…we are not eating pasta three days a week and things mom and dad love have to be part of the eating rotation too (curry!). At times I will also also direct the choices by what I know we need to use up. For example, if I have a fridge full of peppers, I will put fajitas on our meals rotation that week. Or, if someone chooses Pot Roast, I will add French Dip Sandwiches to the que because that is how we use up the leftover meat.
Easy Meal Plan {week 1}
I don’t put specific meals on specific days. Our life changes and our schedule is fluid, so I make what works for us that day. If we don’t get through all the meals that week for one reason or another, we roll them on to the next week. Which leads to one caution: make sure the meals you choose work for you. If you know the week is crazy, time intensive meals should not be on the list. If the week requires early prep or crock pot, let your family know! If you don’t make it work for you, it won’t happen for more than a week!
Step 5. Do it. Force yourself to go to the grocery store (or pick up your Clicklist) and do your best to follow the plan. It was amazing how much easier cooking was when I didn’t have to think about WHAT I was going to make for dinner, but it does still require you to plan and cook, so don’t be surprised that this still does take some effort.
I hope these tips and tricks make meal planning something you CAN do in 2018! I know a little planning makes dinner so much more enjoyable!Mary Beth Johnson is a writer based in Atlanta, GA. She is currently writing her first book in between school drop off and laundry piles. She can be found every day on Instagram and at the local coffee shop.
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